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ABNER n. WlLLIS, 0F ORAWFORDSVILLE, INDIANA.

Letters Patent No. 98,535,;dated January 4,1870.

'nvrm'zovnn MEDICAL coMPoUNn.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, ABNER. D. WILLIS, of the city of Grawfordsville, in the county of Montgomery, and Stateof Indiana, have invented a Medical Compound, which is an alexiphnrmic for all poisons obtained from the excessive use of intoxicating liquors, nnd ztlsoa. cure for manta. (a potn or delirium tremens. It will invigorate and restore the system from anyderangement that has been brought on by the excessive use'of intoxicating droughts, and will also destroy the desire for all intoxicating drinks. It is also an antidote for the poisons received from the bite of venomous serpents or from the sting of insects, when applied as a lotion.

'And 1 do hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description of the difi'erent compounds and extracts of which the said compound is made, viz", alcohol, distilled water, Coptis trtfo lz'a root, Hydrastis Oanadensis root, hydrastin, and elixir of vitriol.

The compound is made as follows. to wit vready for use.

Take, of the crude root of Coptis tm'folia, one ounce, and one ounce of Hyd'rastz's Canadensis root, put in one pint of alcohol, and Iet remnin twenty-four hours; then add one pint of water, and letstand ten days; then add sixty grains of hydrastin and one-half ounce of elixir of vitriol, shake the same well, and it will be What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is-

The compound, composed'of alcohol, water, Ooptis trifolia root, Hydrastts Canadensis root, hydrastin, and elixir of vitriol, a medical compound of the ingredients in or about the proportionsas set forth in the specification above, when used for the purposes specified.

A. D. \VILLIS.

Witnesses:

WALTER S. BRITTON, AUSTIN B. ANDERSON. 

